Facts about addiction
Addiction is a ___________?
Chronic brain disease
Addiction can ____ from the users family?
separate, or cause a distance reletionship
what is the charities name?
The John Howard Society
Relapse is a normal part of healing but how can the people around the substance user do to help them?
Provide support and/or comfort!
what percentage of Prisoners use drugs in the U.S.A?
around 80%
How much of addiction can be affected by Genetics
up to 40-60%
Those who use substances may experience?
More anxiety or depression
What is the charities goal?
To help people in jail addicted to drugs, seek help
during the healing process the substance user has to what?
Be willing to heal, or want to heal
What percentage of Canadian crime include drugs or substances?
around 40%
People with mental illness are ___ More likely to become addicted to substances
Twice
The more serious effects can be?
stroke
brain damage
Seizures
mental confusion.
Where do they get their funding?
Projects with other communities
The public safety department
private donations
When a person is healing its not just the _____ that will allow them to heal
Willpower
What percentage of the American crimes involve substance or drugs?
around 28%
What is the most used addictive substance?
Alcohol
When recovering its not just changing brain paths its also ________
Changing terrible habits
What percent of juvenile inmates use substances?
70%
drug overdose deaths per year worldwide
over 600,000 drug overdose deaths in 2024